Word: rental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scale of rents at Yale runs slightly under that at Harvard, thanks to a special fund which was saved out of the cost of building the Colleges. The minimum rental is $110, ten dollars more that that at Harvard, but the maximum is only $400 per man, nearly two hundred below that at Harvard. For food, the College resident pays $8 for twenty-one meals, fifty cents less than in the Houses. Yale has copied Harvard in fixing the prices for fourteen or seven meals per week at a much higher proportional rate. Another plan devised at Cambridge and copied...
Adolf Hitler snared the votes of Germany's enormous petty shopkeeper class by promising in famed Plank No. 16 of the Nazi Party Platform: ''Immediate communalization of the large department stores and their rental at low cost to small merchants...
...survey of the accommodations in the seven Houses for students revealed that the Houses are 97 per cent filled in comparison with 95 per cent filled in comparison with 95 per cent which was the figure of last year's rental. Sixty-nine more students are now living in the Houses this year due to the reduction of rents which went into effect this fall...
...effort was made, in pricing the rooms, to obtain an average figure that would be the same as the previous figure in the Yard and Mt. Auburn Street dormitories. The Student Council Report of that year, dealing with "Student Expenses, Aids, and Employment," disclosed that the average room rental price in the Houses was about $40 higher than in the College dormitories prior to the House plan...
...committee took this difficulty in hand, and as a result of its investigation House rents were cut 12 per cent, the new price schedule to take effect in 1933-34. The change, chiefly affecting higher priced rooms, represented a $60,000 shrinkage in income to the University; the average rental figure dropped from $300 to $264, its value before the Houses came into being. Throughout this discussion the prices quoted are those per man. Under the new schedule no rooms were priced higher than $500, in contrast to the previous maximum of $600. The number of accommodations costing...